Please Explain: Predicting the Weather

vor 13 Jahren

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Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show)

In Please Explain, we set aside time every Friday afternoon to get to the bottom of one complex issue. We’ll back up and review the basic facts and principles of complicated issues across a broad range of topics — history, politics, science, you name i...

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vor 13 Jahren

For?Please Explain?we're looking at how experts predict the weather--and storms like Hurricane Sandy--and how improving technology is making the science more precise. Dr. Robert Gall, Development Manager of the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Dr. Adam Sobel, Professor in the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.